Episode 1029 - Steve Sweeney

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.6 • 29.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2019

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

When Steve Sweeney was growing up in Boston, the last thing he expected to become was an entertainer. He rubbed elbows with career criminals in Charlestown but somehow wound up doing summertime productions of Shakespeare plays and seeing actors like Lawrence Olivier and Christopher Plummer. Acting then led to exposure to comedy, which later led to cocaine-induced psychosis, and eventually to working in jails and with at-risk youth. Steve talks with Marc about the journey to build his act and why he enjoys producing his own projects now, including his new movie Sweeney Killing Sweeney. This episode is sponsored by Turo, Squarespace, and Starbucks Tripleshot Energy.

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0:00.0	Fuck the game!
0:01.0	Alright, let's do this.
0:11.2	How are you, what the fuckers, what the fuck buddies, what the fuck in ears, what the fuck
0:15.6	sters, what's happening, I'm Mark Marin, this is my podcast, WTF.
0:20.2	I'm at a town, it's early in the morning for me, and I'm in a place where the sound
0:26.2	bounces around which you probably can't appreciate as much as I can appreciate not being the word
0:31.8	that I really want to use, I mean I'm not appreciating it, I guess that is the word,
0:35.8	I'm acknowledging it, how's your morning going?
0:38.8	I thought I was ready to do this, but I don't have much time, I have a small window of
0:44.0	time here.
0:45.6	Today on the show Steve Sweeney, the veteran comic, one of the Mount Rushmore figures of
0:53.2	Boston comedy, I knew him when I was starting out, he's here today, he's got a movie out,
0:59.7	it's called Sweeney Killing Sweeney, it's available on iTunes and Amazon.
1:05.4	When I was starting out in Boston this guy was the king, he was one of the kings, there
1:08.6	was like three or four kings, and Steve was one of them, so it was kind of interesting,
1:14.0	I don't think I've really talked to him, probably ever, but I talked, maybe I talked to him a
1:19.4	few times back when I was a kid, just a sprouting comic, back at Nick's comedy stop in Boston,
1:28.1	but I certainly haven't talked to him as an adult and it was very interesting for me,
1:33.2	so I got a trip back to a younger me.
1:36.6	So let me explain what's going on here, last time I talked to you I was in St. Louis,
1:43.0	and then on Sunday morning I packed up my bags at five in the morning, I went to the St.
1:49.2	Louis airport and I flew to Toronto, Canada, Toronto, Ontario, and now I got here on Sunday
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